“Manipulate? Yes, I manipulated. And despite the ensuing events, I would do so again, for it is the function of psychiatry to encourage the living to live.”

—  Lucius Shepard, book Green Eyes

Source: Green Eyes (1984), Chapter 6, p. 49

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